1. Welcome!
COMM110 Effective Speaking Victoria Mahmoud

2. Homework Purchase book The Art of Public Speaking By Lucas Where?
Book Store at BCCC
Amazon

3. Speaking in Public

4. MIT Professor Patrick Henry Winston
"Your careers will be determined largely by how well you speak, by how well you write, and by the quality of your ideas… in that order."
MIT Professor Patrick Henry Winston
Speaking in Public

5. Public Speaking & Conversation
Similarities:
Organizing thoughts logically
Tailoring message to audience
Telling story for maximum impact
Adapting to feedback

6. Public Speaking & Conversation
Differences:
Public speaking more structured
Public speaking
requires
more formal
language

7. Public Speaking & Conversation
What other mode of Communication?
Written!

8. Public Speaking & Conversation
Why compare Differences & Similarities?

9. Where that person is coming from?
Frame of Reference
Sum of person’s knowledge, experience, goals, values, attitudes
Where that person is coming from?

10. Frame of Reference
Everything said is filtered through listener’s frame of reference
No two people have same frame of reference

11. Frame of Reference What does this mean to speaker? Know your audience
Be concrete or specific
in your descriptions
Relate to audience

12. Fear of Public Speaking Taming the Beast

13. Public Speaking Who has it What it is Why we have it What to do
about it

14. Stage Fright Anxiety over prospect of speaking in front of audience
Who has it?
Anxiety over prospect of speaking in front of audience
Donny Osmond
Barbra Streisand
Kim Basinger

15. Public Speaking
What is the percentage of people who have a fear of public speaking?
75%!

16. Who has anxiety of over the thought of speaking in public?
Stage Fright
Who has anxiety of over the thought of speaking in public?
Eek!
Harrison Ford
Barbra Streisand

17. Addressing Shyness Politicians Athletes Astronauts Inventors
Entertainers
Authors
Business people

18. Why do you want to be a better, more confident speaker?
Stage Fright
Why do you want to be a better, more confident speaker?
School requirement
Work
Requirement
Promotion
Improve overall confidence
Self Improvement
Sense of accomplishment

19. University of Pittsburgh’s Katz Business School
What Employers Want
University of Pittsburgh’s Katz Business School
Surveyed company recruiters
Communication skills
(written and oral)
Most important factor in choosing managers

20. Stage Fright
How do you feel? Symptoms? Heart Racing Hands Shaking Body Sweating Voice Quivering
Sounds like the flu!

21. Stage Fright Why do I feel like this!?!? Fight! Adrenaline! Flight!
All of these symptoms are your body’s reaction to perceived threat or danger. You are scared. Your body goes into fight or flight mode. You want to run, but you cannot! Your adrenaline level increases and produces these unwanted side effects.
Flight!

22. What am I AFRAID of!?!? People will see I am nervous
I might forget something
I might faint
I am scared I might make a mistake
What are you afraid of?

23. Addressing Speech Anxiety
Most nervousness
not visible

24. Positive Nervousness
Some nerves = positive! Makes you practice. Transfer energy into enthusiasm!

25. Reducing Speech Anxiety
Use power of visualization
Most nervousness not visible
Don’t expect perfection
Audience involvement
Visual aids
Meditation

26. Addressing Speech Anxiety
Don’t expect
perfection

27. Addressing Speech Anxiety
Don’t expect
Perfection
Politian
Are great orators
born or made?

28. What am I AFRAID of!?!?
"The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public."
George Jessel

29. Addressing Speech Anxiety
No smelling
salts needed!

30. Reducing Speech Anxiety
Acquire experience
Take this class!
I am always doing that which
I cannot do, in order that I
may learn how to do it. 
Pablo Picasso

31. Reducing Speech Anxiety
Prepare,
Prepare
Rewrite
Write
Practice!

32. Reducing Speech Anxiety
Think positively
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
Swedish proverb

33. Reducing Speech Anxiety
Find a friendly face!

34. Reducing Speech Anxiety
Positive
Feedback
Room for Improvement
Positive
Feedback

35. Reducing Speech Anxiety
Visual aids
Pressure off
of you
Adds
Credibility

36. Reducing Speech Anxiety
Meditation

37. Public Speaking Who has it What it is Why we have it What to do
about it

38. Is There a Magic Wand?

39. I Am Proof!

40. Positive People! Positive People!
You Can Do It!
See success!
Be successful!
Positive People! Positive People!

41. Fear of Public Speaking Taming the Beast

42. Resources
"Introduction to Communication Skills - Communication Skills Training from MindTools.com." Mind Tools - Management Training, Leadership Training and Career Training - Right Here, Right Now Web. 24 Oct < nIntro.htm>.

43. Critical Thinking Focused, organized thinking
Relationships among ideas
Soundness of evidence
Differences between fact, opinion
Information Literacy

44. Critical Thinking Why study Critical Thinking? Determine
What is a good speech
What is a good source
How to think on your own

45. Critical Thinking How many people die in car accidents per year?
~40,000
How many people die in the military per year?
Conclusion?

46. Speech Communication Process
Channel (Chamber of Commerce or TV)
Message
(What are you trying to say?)
Listener (Adjust to the audience – children or parents)
Speaker
(must adjust)
Situation
(Classroom or auditorium)
Feedback
(Adjust message according to feedback)
Interference
(Keep audience interested)

47. Material from the following unless indicated otherwise:
Lucas, Stephen. The Art of Public Speaking. 11th ed.
Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, Print.
Clipart from Microsoft Office